Lot 1125
1125
MATHEMATICS -- EUCLIDES. Elementa, libris XV. ad Germanam geometriæ intelligentiam è diversis lapsibus temporis iniuria contractis restituta. (Ed.) F.F. Candalla. Par., J. du Puys (Colophon: Lyon, J. de Tournes), 1578. (24), 575, (1) pp. Fol. Cont. vellum. (Bands on spine dam. (vellum gone), bind. a bit stained & wormholed, upper hinge broken, first quire loosening, upper margin waterstained at the end, browned/foxed in places).
Rare and important second edition edited by François de Foix de Candale, with the 17th and 18th books that were not present in the first edition, these two books deal with the regular solids. De Foix de Candale, mathematician and alchemist, is best known for the translation and commentary of Euclid. - Thomas-Stanford 21; Steck III.92; Adams E986.€ 600
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